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Subject: A good idea for saving space in tablebases

Author: blass uri

Date: 08:33:14 10/10/98


I think that in some endgames like KRN vs KR you can save space
by defining rules to do the right moves:

If there is conversion in a small number of plies you can find it by search and
not use the tablebases to tell you the right move

In other positions you can use tablebases only if the rules are not right
I believe it is possible to define rules that you are not wrong in 99% of the
cases
and for 1% of the cases you can save a smaller file with the positions and the
right moves.

you can have rules for win,draw,loss too and again you can store only the
exceptions.

I think it is more difficult to define good rules in other positions like KRB vs
KR
but at least for part of the endgames you can save a lot of space.

Uri



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